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[Discussion] What games are you playing on your Steam Deck/Machine/Frame? - October 2026 (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] dmir@gehirneimer.de 1 points 9 hours ago

What's your model? I got an older LCD one. I can kind of get it to run 40 FPS pretty much all the time, but it gets noisy and hot that way, which I really don't like and try to avoid, especially in something like ARC Raiders, because it's a type of game I go in for a couple of hours, maybe "wired" to the socket.

I've tried playing the Frozen Trail update at 30 FPS yesterday with these settings:

In-game:
- Resolution: Borderless fullscreen at 1280x800, but 50% render scale (so 640x400)
- No AA at all
- All graphics to Low
SteamOS:
- 30 FPS, 60 Hz
- Allow screen tearing: On - to hopefully get less input, which is especially important on FPS this low
- Half-rate shading: Off
- TDP: 12 (at most)
- Manual GPU clock: 700 MHz - to stop the hiccups when it either spikes or drops down

Surprisingly playable. Although I am mostly used to playing shooters with gyro on the Steam Deck and have difficulty using it as a standard controller in such games. Playing gyro in an Embark game is not an option right now, as they've been increasingly more reliant on AI for behavioural analysis, which has issued many bans to THE FINALS players that were only admitted and reversed somewhat recently, with some of them being issues again weeks after - ARC Raiders has recently introduced the same system, so I'm taking my chances. What I especially like about these settings is that the device runs much quieter and cooler, which gives me a little peace of mind, helping me think I won't have to replace it or at least do some costly maintenance that soon.

The new controller scheme they have is also messing with my muscle memory in the most important of moments. lol

But I really hope that practice can make perfect here as well. I've gotten somewhat okay at this game with a wired 8BitDo Ultimate (the XBOX layout one), but I guess I just hold my Steam Deck differently. Maybe it's time to make better use of the back pedals.

As for the end-game content, yeah, I feel you. Gonna be even more difficult now. I'm not spoiling this to you if you want to read the patch notes yourself.